Scene: Time lapse. Next day. Meadow. Inu Yasha and the gang are resting.
Sango: Are you okay, Kagome?
Kagome: For the one hundredth time I am fine. I found out what happened and I'll undo it as soon we run into Akuma again.
Inu Yasha: So specifically now. He's coming closer. I can smell him.
(Akuma appears.)
Akuma: Here you are. This time you won't escape that easily.
Inu Yasha: Rather worry about yourself!
Akuma: You are Inu Yasha, the hanyou, Naraku wants me to take out first.
Inu Yasha: Let me see you try. (He draws Tetsusaiga.)
Akuma: Nice sword. Say goodbye to it.
Kagome: What?!
Inu Yasha: Kaze No Kizu!
Miroku: It stopped!
Sango: Even before it hit him!
Kagome: Inu Yasha…
Akuma: Naraku told me everything about your sword. I know every attack of it and how to avoid it. But now it's my turn to show my power.
Kagome: I have this very bad feeling again! Inu Yasha, take care!
Inu Yasha: No need to worry, Kagome! He's no threat to us!
Akuma: You might want to change your mind when I'm finished with you. (He awakes the youkai blood in Inu Yasha.)
Inu Yasha: Damn, that can't be! How does he do it?! Aargh! (He can't hold Tetsusaiga anymore. It wards him off.)
Kagome: Inu Yasha!! (She runs over to him. Inu Yasha is seriously injured and fights against the youkai influence.) Inu Yasha!
Inu Yasha: Kagome! Run! I can't feel it starting all over again!
Kagome: I won't go away! Try to fight it, Inu Yasha! Suppress it! (She hugs him tightly.)
Akuma: Can't you stand my evil? Poor you. Let's see whether I can make a worth opponent out of you.
Inu Yasha: It's too strong, Kagome! I can't stand up to it! Forgive me. Run! Aargh! (He transforms into a youkai.)
Kagome: Inu Yasha!
(Inu Yasha pushes her away.)
Akuma: This is much better. Now show me your power.
Sango: Kagome!
(Miroku, Sango und Shippou run to her.)
Kagome: It's okay. I'm fine. But Inu Yasha…
(She sees Inu Yasha fighting Akuma.)
Sango: What is this Akuma?
Miroku He transformed Inu Yasha and Inu Yasha has no choice but keep on fighting because his youkai blood forces him to.
Shippou: Tetsusaiga injured Inu Yasha seriously when it warded him off and now Inu Yasha don't even feel his pain anymore.
Kagome: Inu Yasha…
Inu Yasha: Well, how do you like it, Akuma?! (He attacks him with his claws.)
Akuma: Your transformation won't help you much. The truth is you will always be a hanyou, having a hanyou body. It won't stand up to this for long.
Inu Yasha: It will long enough to finish you off, Akuma. (He avoids his attack and counteracts.)
Kagome: Inu Yasha, stop it!
Akuma: You should listen to your little human girlfriend if you don't want to die here.
Inu Yasha: She's not my girlfriend! I don't know her! And I will kill you only with my hands!
Kagome: He doesn't know me?! Inu Yasha, is your soul lost already?! (She draws an arrow into her bow.)
Sango: Kagome, what are doing?
Kagome: I'll put an end to this useless fight. (She shoots at Akuma but misses him.)
Akuma: What the…?! This girl…she not a mere human! (He escape.)
Inu Yasha: Stay here!
Kagome: Uh-oh.
(Inu Yasha turns around to her.)
Inu Yasha: How do you dare, dirty human woman spoiling the fun?! You will pay for that!
Miroku: Kagome, come on! We have to escape!
Kagome: No!
Shippou: Kagome, please!
Miroku: Kagome, look, you can't save Inu Yasha anymore! He'll kill us all if we don't run immediately!
Kagome: Then run but I'll stay! I can't leave Inu Yasha behind like this! I can't let him down!
(Miroku und Sango look helplessly at each other.)
Inu Yasha: Your days have been counted, human!
Kagome: Aargh! Inu Yasha, don't! (He attacks her. She falls to the ground.) Inu Yasha…this can't be the end! Your soul mustn't be lost! I will save you! Even if die myself trying to doing it! (She gets up and grabs Inu Yasha's shoulders.) Inu Yasha, fight it, please!
Cut to the bushes. Sesshoumaru und Jaken are standing there, watching.
Jaken: Sesshoumaru-sama, may I ask you what exactly you are searching here?
Sesshoumaru: I want to find something out. It looks like Naraku's plan is working. Inu Yasha doesn't even remember his friends and feels no pain. He'll be lost if there won't happen something soon.
Cut to Inu Yasha and the gang.
Inu Yasha: Get your hands off me! (He pushes Kagome away. Kagome falls to the ground, gets up again and goes back to Inu Yasha.) You are quite tough but this won't save you. You'll die in a moment.
(Kagome hugs him tightly.)
Cut to Sesshoumaru and Jaken.
Sesshoumaru: This human girl doesn't give up. She absolutely wants to save Inu Yasha. He will tear her apart with this claw but she shows no fear. Strange...
Cut to Inu Yasha and the gang.
Inu Yasha: I told you to keep you dirty fingers of me! (He pushes her away and Kagome falls to the ground again.) Say your prayers, human! You wanted it like this! (He hurts her seriously with his claws.)
Miroku/Sango/Shippou: Kagome!!
Inu Yasha: Be patient! Your turn will come! ( He grins.)
Shippou: Kagome!
(Kagome gets up, swaying.)
Kagome: Inu Yasha…
Sango: Hurry, Kagome, come on over to us!
Miroku: Realize it at last that it's over!
Kagome: Over? No, not yet. I'll save Inu Yasha, even if I die myself!
Inu Yasha: There's not much time left to suffer, human. A pretty long cut and you will be gone.
Kagome: Inu Yasha! (She runs to him, clings to him and kisses him.)
Sango: Kagome…
Miroku: It once has worked. Hopefully it will again.
Kagome: I won't leave you to yourself, Inu Yasha! My strength's fading away already.. Not yet! First I'll have to save Inu Yasha! After that nothing is important anymore…
(Inu Yasha transforms back into a hanyou.)
Cut to Sesshoumaru and Jaken.
Sesshoumaru: Huh? She re-transformed him. So now she's doing what Tetsusaiga was supposed to do. Protecting Inu Yasha. By kissing him. Interesting. Naraku, looks like you lost again. The bond between Inu Yasha and this woman seems to be too strong for you to break. We're leaving. I've seen what I came here for.
Jaken: After you, Sesshoumaru-sama. I wonder what he got out of this
Cut to Inu Yasha and the gang. Inu Yasha sees what happened.
Inu Yasha: Kagome! No, please not!
Kagome: You're save now.
(She smiles and faints. Inu Yasha catches her.)
Inu Yasha: Kagome! Noooooo!! Kagomeeeeee!!
Shippou: Kagome!!
(He tries to run over to her. Miroku holds him back.)
Miroku: Shippou, don't!
(He sadly shakes his head. Shippou jumps into Sango's arms and bursts out into tears.)
Inu Yasha: Kagome, I didn't want that. I'm so sorry. (He cries silently. Suddenly he feels the pain again and faints.)
Scene: Musashi. Hut. Inu Yasha und Kagome are lying there unconscious. Inu Yasha wakes up and sees Kagome.
Inu Yasha: Kagome! (He feels her pulse.) She's alive! Thank God! (He's in pain.) The injuries. What happened? Right, I remember. The youkai blood inside me had taken complete control over me and then I attacked Kagome! I nearly killed her!. It can't go on like this! (Kaede comes in.) Kaede!
Kaede: You should get some rest, Inu Yasha. Your injuries aren't nothing.
Inu Yasha: Did you…?
Kaede: Treat your wounds, yes. You were very lucky you were near the village. If not both of you would have died away.
Inu Yasha: How's Kagome?
Kaede: As well as can be expected. Her injuries are serious. You nearly killed her, Inu Yasha. (He looks confusedly at her.) I recognized the wound. It's the same wound Naraku gave to Kikyou in your shape fifty years ago. I asked Miroku and Sango about it and they told me what happened. You hit Kagome much deeper than Naraku Kikyou that time. But enough now. You already have a guilty conscience I suppose.
Inu Yasha: Yeah.
Kaede: She survived it. She is indeed stronger than I expected her to be.
Inu Yasha: Yeah, she's tough.
Kaede: It's not that.
Inu Yasha: Hmh?
Kaede: Your friends told me that Kagome absolutely did not want to let you down. She did not stop trying to bring you back. She even would have given her life for trying. FLASHBACK: KAGOME YOU ARE SAVE NOW.) And when she saw that she had made it she did faint but inside herself she kept on fighting for her life. Do you know why, Inu Yasha?
(Inu Yasha shakes his head.)
Kaede: She did not want to leave you alone, Inu Yasha. She wanted to stay with you.
Inu Yasha: Idiot. She could have died because of it.
Kaede: Yes, that's true. But she would have made this sacrifice as long as were alive and yourself.
Inu Yasha: Kagome…You even would have died for me. There's nothing I can do to make up for it.
Cut to outside the hut. Miroku, Sango and Shippou are standing there.
Miroku: Shippou, go and see how the two are. (Shippou goes into the hut. Miroku looks at Sango.) How do you think about it?
Sango: I find it frightening! They are closer to each other than anyone could have ever imagined! Kagome would have even given her life for Inu Yasha!
Miroku: I don't dare imagine how it ends the next time Inu Yasha transforms. I really thought we would have lost him.
Sango: If there will be a next time I think we will lose him then. This time already he was going to kill Kagome! I mean his youkai self.
Miroku: I'm afraid there is no rescue for Inu Yasha. Even Kagome could hardly reach his human heart. She did it in the end but what if she hasn't got the time to next time because everything happens too fast?
Sango: But there must be something to do.
Miroku: Well, there is something but Inu Yasha has to be willing to do it.
(He looks at Sango. She nods.)
Sango: I understand.
Cut back to Inside the hut.
Inu Yasha: For how long will she still be unconscious?
Kaede: A couple of hours I think. Everything's one day ago already. She'll wake up soon. Shippou., will you help me collecting herbs?
Shippou: Okay, Kaede.
Cut to outside the hut. Kaede and Shippou step out.
Sango: How are they?
Kaede: Inu Yasha has just woken up. Kagome will soon, too. But give him a piece of rest. He has to digest a lot.
(Miroku nods.)
Scene: Time lapse. Musashi. Hut. Inu Yasha slowly straightens up, flinches in pain and stops it. He looks at Kagome.
Inu Yasha: I'm so sorry.
(Kagome opens her eyes.)
Kagome: It's not your fault, Inu Yasha.
Inu Yasha: Kagome, how are you? Are you badly in pain? Kaede says you should lie down for quite a while.
Kagome: If she says so. What about you, Inu Yasha? You were injured, too.
Inu Yasha: It's nothing. Tomorrow I'll be fit again.
(They look at each other for a while, then Inu Yasha looks away.)
Kagome: He can't look into my eyes. He's terribly reproaching himself.
Inu Yasha: Kagome, I was scared. I thought I would lose you. Why are you always so selfless? Why didn't you run away together with the others?
Kagome: I couldn't just leave you behind, Inu Yasha.
Inu Yasha: But I'd almost killed you and still…!
Kagome: I didn't hesitate trying to save you.
Inu Yasha: You could have died!
Kagome: I wouldn't have cared as long as you were fine.
Inu Yasha: You're obviously lost. (He turns away from her so that she can't see his tears.)
Kagome: You don't need to hide your tears from me. How many did I cry for you already?
Inu Yasha: I'm not crying. I just don't want to see you.
(Kagome takes his hand.)
Kagome: Please, Inu Yasha, don't reproach yourself. It's not your fault. You said it yourself. The youkai blood is too strong for you. You didn't have the strength to fight it any longer.
(Inu Yasha turns around to her. You can see his tears.)
Inu Yasha: I don't want to do this ever again. I could never forgive myself if I would...
Kagome: Shhh! Enough. No more word of it.
Inu Yasha: … Why can't you just put it off or something?
Kagome: This would be great but too easy. You can't stop being who and what you are, Inu Yasha.
Inu Yasha: So I'd better be a weak human.
Kagome: I didn't say that and I never will. There are also good points of being a hanyou. The only thing you have to take care of is learning to better estimate and not overestimate yourself. When you're seriously injured you have to force yourself to stop fighting. Even if it hits your pride to run away sometimes.
Inu Yasha: I've never run away. I don't do that.
Kagome: You see? This is exactly the problem.,
Inu Yasha: How did I actually re-transform? Tetsusaiga wasn't with me.
Kagome: I re-transformed you. Like that time we fought Kaguya. That was the only thing helping. I'm sorry.
Inu Yasha: I see. It gets worse everytime. Maybe you should better…
Kagome: Careful! If you finish the sentence I'll say it again. I'll stay here, Inu Yasha. You once have already sent me home because it got more dangerous by your side. You won't manage to do the same again to me.
(Inu Yasha smiled.)
Inu Yasha: You got courage.
Kagome: It's not courage but sense. Well, how about changing the subject?
(They smile.)